River Flow

Monotype

Image size: 17 1/2" x 17 1/2"

Paper size: 25 1/2" x 22"

Estimated Value: $950

Printed at CCP by a CCP Printer

William McCarthy is an award-winning atmospheric landscape painter whose works have a luminous quality achieved through his own technique of using many layers of diluted oil color, glazes and varnish. His paintings reference places that contain a quiet inner light. His artistry is based on his deft handling of light and texture and his vast knowledge of various techniques. He has garnered numerous solo shows throughout the northeast and can be found in private and corporate collections such as the Mayo Clinic, New York Public Library, and Yale Art Gallery. McCarthy studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design, as well as at Wesleyan University. He was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and had a solo exhibition of his prints at CCP in 2012.

"My process begins with drawings made in pocket-size sketchbooks. I must have 50 or 60 small sketchbooks filled with notations about things I've just seen or landscapes remembered and imagined. I take the books with me everywhere - on canoeing trips, to sporting events, on my travels. I make quick sketches or record ideas that might be developed into oil paintings. None of the drawings is very detailed, but each has enough information to remind me of ideas when I'm in my studio.

Light has come to play an important part, and when I look back over this body of work, I feel it speaks about spiritual places, places that contain a quiet inner light, radiating an ethereal whisper, the places we see every day."

Visit the artist's website at:

www.williammccarthyfineart.com